MIT Press announces first Open Access journal

[Laura Esterly <lesterly@MIT.EDU>]

[With apologies for cross-posting]

The MIT Press publishes its first Open Access journal: 
Information Technologies and International Development

October 25, 2006

Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) has 
become the first journal published by The MIT Press to 
participate in the open access initiative. Now you can retrieve 
peer-reviewed full text PDF articles from the journal's website, 
http://mitpressjournals.org/loi/itid, free of charge, from any 
location with internet access.

Making high quality content freely available online to anyone 
interested in the intersection of communications technologies and 
development around the world is an exciting opportunity for the 
journal and The MIT Press. But where editors and the Press hope 
that lessons from this new model may truly have an impact is 
within the larger community - in academia, the private sector, 
NGOs, and governments around the world.

"We can't think of a better congruence between delivery platform 
and purpose," says MIT Press Director Ellen Faran. "ITID's 
content, mission, contributors, and readers will all be well 
supported by its free online availability."

The study of technological impact in the world'd developing 
nations is a growing interdisciplinary field. The editors of 
ITID, Dr. Ernest J. Wilson of the University of Maryland, and Dr. 
Michael L. Best of Georgia Institute of Technology, seek not 
merely to inform scholars interested in this emerging field; they 
seek to solicit the participation of individuals who might 
benefit from the research and proposals put forth by scholars, 
researchers and practitioners across the globe, independent of 
location or financial means.

Whether a traditional or an open access model, The MIT Press is 
committed to applying the latest innovations in electronically- 
published content to enhance the online experience for those who 
read and make use of their scholarly journals. Providing open 
access to ITID through the best possible online environment will 
help to create this wide-reaching forum for dialogue, while 
increasing visibility and readership, and potentially attracting 
a larger volume of high quality submissions from a wider 
audience.

About ITID

Informative, lively, and provocative, Information Technologies 
and International Development (ITID) focuses on the intersection 
of information and communication technologies with international 
development. http://mitpressjournals.org/loi/itid

About MIT Press Journals

MIT Press Journals publishes more than 30 titles in the arts and 
humanities, social sciences, and in certain areas of science and 
technology. Journals are available in print and electronic 
formats. http://mitpressjournals.org

About The MIT Press

The MIT Press publishes books in fields as diverse as 
architecture, social theory, economics, cognitive science, and 
computational science. http://mitpress.mit.edu

For more information about ITID or The MIT Press,
please email: <mailto:journals-info@mit.edu>

Laura Esterly
Journals Marketing Manager
The MIT Press
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Cambridge, MA 02142
617-253-2866